Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-01-29
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into the 'goodlie companie" like going
back into the old times of Los Angeles,
when we were all friends that knew
each other as young men, starting out
to build up this great State. The fact
of the assemblage brought up sad and
gloomy thoughts, for whilst we were all
together we could, with graphic force.
call to mind the absent roll. But yet
there were so many of the old-timers to
the fore that it did good TO those-nu-
merous indeed-that were yet left.
There were Charlie Dotter and wife,
Louis Lichtenberger and his better half,
and Mendel Meyer. with the old fiddle
we danced to 10 our early days; and
Louis Mesmer and his wife. and DR..
Kurtz and the lady who has kept his
head level and his patients hopeful, and
I. Cohen and his wife, and G. kohler
and G. Hansen, who has been here since
the wear one; and Mr.. Peske and wife,
and MIR. J. Fisher, who dates from long
before the foundation of Anaheim,
or any other city; and Herman
Helman who used 20 be spanked. and
deservedly, for his tricks before cable
roads were in the air; and Professor
Knell, who has taught us our musical
pauses from the time whereof the mem.
ory of man runneth not to the contrary:
and Sam Meyer, to whom we have been
indebted, for the past hundred years or
so, for all the crockery broken in our
kitchen; and Mr.. Rump; and Fred
Morsch, who shall conquer by this
sign; and John Schroeder, the versatile
and always jovial; and Henry Morris,
who pretends he is still young. when we
| knew him eighty or more years ago; and
J. Johannsen, and Mr.. Hannaman, aud
Jake Kuhrts, who about every day costs
this city several million dollars, because
| he was SO attentive to his duties when
it was the habit here for every body to
kill themselves on the cobble stones to
get even on the Common Council, and
Charley Brodie, who was the first to de-
stroy the grocery business here with his
cheap prices; and A. Smith and Z.
Jacoby, man who requires looking
after, because he is newspaper fellow;
and A. Brosner, and H. Grour, and A.
Joughin senior, and Alvin Adams,
and newspaper fellow from
the HERALD, who would be very
properly in San Quentin if the other
newspaper fellows were on the bench;
and Ned Preuss, whose personal home
illness is only tolerated because OF the
rare beauty and amiability of his very
superior wife; and Frank and John
Schumacher, shrimps OF the olden time,
but now so evoluted that no one dare
remind them of their protOplasmic puni-
ness: and their lovely sister Carrie
Schumacher, diamond of the purest
water, and who through all her trials
and sorrows, bursts forth as lustrous
star of the first magnitude; and few
others. of the male gender whom we
compliment by saying that not to know
them is to argue ourselves unknown.
OF course, we omitted to say that the
better halves of all these old. timers
were there, and with their usual good
sense knew when to stay the absurd
joviality of their husbands and to let
them know when they should become
uproarious and when TO hold their
peace. When order was given for the
latter they looked funny, and protested
that they knew ghen just as well
as those fellows that had no wives
there, but had them elsewhere, and then
all looked wise, and seemed as if they
knew 1t all, when they would have
looked equally as silly if their sensible
wives had been there to hold them in
proper check.
Well, SO the goodly company, all ar
rayed in their paper caps, came to pay
their friendly respects to our old friend
Louis Roeder ON his fifty-fifth birthday.
We wish we had room to give verba.
tim report of all the good things that
were said there in seven languages, for
the German did not have it all its own
way. But We have not, and must there
fore content ourselves with plain nar.
ration of what took place.
On the walls of the house, as we
entered, we saw inscribed In German |
characters "Welcome to All Old Ger |
mans" Of cour:e referring to those old
Germans who figured in early Los Ange. /
les. When they had .all donned their
festive caps and the festive bottles of
soda had been placed in front Of each |
guest, Brother Roeder welcomed the |
friends in speech which was sponta- |
neous, for if he had studied it up, it
wouldn't have filled the bill. He locked
glad, and we believe he was what he
looked. He called up a reminisence of
the early fifties, when he was masher. |
He said the Germans had
called ball in Los Angeles |
and the only two German ladies who |
were here at that time being at outs, of
course they could not come. The boys
only think of George Hansen and |
Henry Dockweiler being talked about as
boys, yet they were, at some time-were
in fix to make up the sets, and they, |
with their usual diplomacy sent the cal |
low, but juvenescent Roeder out to find
partners for the dancers. Well, Louis |
accepted the commission, and returned
with bevy of lovely senoritas, who |
were only too willing to fill the bill, and
the two German ladies received lesson
that they profited by forever after. We
do not say that either of these ladies
were at the fere last night. Yet we
write true history, and "let the CALLED
jade VINCE" for it is none of our real
estate.
Then came an original poem read by
Louis Lichtenberger, in which all the
guests were pleasantly alluded to.
Louis was very happy in its delivery,
and the poem was full OF excellent hits.
He denied that he was the author of the
poem, but genius is always modest.
After him Mr.. Schroeder entertain
ed the company with the history Of an
old hat, giving illustrations of the
troubles of the possessor of such an ap-
pendage. He brought the house down
when he showed that that identical old
hat had received its worst abuses from
the irregular ways of its owner, and
that that owner was the man 1--WE cele.
brate."
Our conscript father Fisher grew
young again in reciting in the language
of the low Dutch (Hamburg) country
the legends of the never ending wars
between fair women and brave men.